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A plant of a large genus of North American annual or perennial herbs so called, belonging to the family Compositæ; a sneezeweed.
Applied to other plants. American sneezewort, Austrian sneezewort (see quots.).
U.S. The plant Helenium autumnale, or other species of the same genus.